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Astrology, birth chart, map of the heavens, biography, picture and horoscope excerpts: you will find on this page all the celebrities born on August, 28, sorted by decreasing popularity. The popularity is the number of real time Astrotheme users' clicks for a celebrity. You can either access the picture and detailed map of the heavens by clicking on the thumbnail, or read the horoscope by clicking on "Display his/her horoscope with biography and chart". Back to the Calendar · Home · 36,396 dominants · Astrology and Statistics · Celestar · AstroSearch 36,396 Celebrities
93 celebrities or events were found for August, 28. Biography of Kay PARKER
Kay Parker (born Kay Rebecca Taylor on August 28, 1944, in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom) is a pornographic actress, best known for her depictions of incest scenes in the Taboo series. She is member of the XRCO and the Adult Video News (an adult-industry publication) Hall of Fame. Adult film career Kay Parker was reportedly introduced to the adult film industry during the late 1970s by actor John Leslie who suggested Parker to take part in one of Leslie's upcoming films at that time. ... Biography of Shania TWAIN
Shania Twain, OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. Her third album Come on Over is the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She is the only female artist to have three albums certified Diamond by the RIAA, and has earned five Grammy awards and nearly forty BMI Songwriter awards. She is married to rock producer Robert ... Biography of Gianni GIARDINELLI
French actor.... Biography of LeAnn RIMES
LeAnn Rimes (born Margaret LeAnn Rimes August 28, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American country music singer. Rimes emerged with the single "Blue" when she was only 13 years old, and by age 24 she had sold over 37 million albums. She has won an American Music Award, two Grammy Awards, three Academy of Country Music Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards. She holds three important records in the music industry, as the current youngest person to win a Grammy and her version of "How Do I ...
Biography of Johann von GOETHE
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, Humanism, science, and painting. His most enduring work, the two-part dramatic poem Faust, is considered one of the peaks of world literature. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther and the semi-autobiographical no...
Biography of Claude ROY
Claude Roy (Paris, 28 August 1915 - Paris, 13 December 1997) was a French poet and essayist. He was awarded the Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud for his book Le verbe Aimer et autres essais in 1969. Works Le verbe Aimer et autres essais (1969) Moi je (1969) Nous (1972) Somme toute (1976) References France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.... Biography of Jack BLACK
Jack Black (born Thomas Jack Black, Jr. on August 28, 1969) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor, comedian and musician. He is considered a core member of the Frat Pack, a name used by members of the media for a group of comedians active in today's Hollywood films, though he is also in demand for Hollywood blockbusters and indie films. He and Kyle Gass make up the comedy/rock duo Tenacious D. Black is also known by his nicknames, Jables or JB. Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m) Early life Black... Biography of David SOUL
David Soul (born August 28, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor and British citizen and singer best known for his role as the "seat-of-the-pants" California police detective Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson (opposite co-star and long-time friend Paul Michael Glaser) in the cult television program Starsky and Hutch (1975-79). Originally David Richard Solberg, he was born the son of a Lutheran minister. His father, Dr. Richard Solberg, was a senior representative for Lutheran World Relief dur... Biography of Amanda TAPPING
Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965) is an English-born Canadian actress. Born in Rochford, Essex in England, she moved with her family to Ontario, Canada when she was three years old. She attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute where she excelled in environmental science and drama. However, when she finished in 1984, she decided to focus her attention on drama when she attended the University of Windsor School of Dramatic Arts in Windsor, Ontario. Height 5' 9" (1.75 m) After graduat... Biography of Jason PRIESTLEY
Jason Priestley (born August 28, 1969) is a naturalized American actor and film director. Born Jason Bradford Priestley in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he is known primarily as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210. The role catapulted him to fame in the early 1990s. Priestley joined the cast of Tru Calling as Jack Harper from 2004-2005. He was also a regular on the 2006 program Love Monkey. His television work also includes the 1989 series ... Biography of Philippe LEOTARD
Philippe Léotard (August 28, 1940 - August 25, 2001) was a French actor and singer. He was born in Fréjus and was the brother of politician François Léotard.... Biography of Scott HAMILTON
Scott Scovell Hamilton (born August 28, 1958(1958-08-28) in Toledo, Ohio) is an American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist known for his originality and engaging on-ice personalities. Childhood Hamilton was adopted at the age of six weeks by Ernest S. Hamilton and Dorothy McIntosh of Bowling Green, Ohio. He has two siblings, older sister Susan and younger brother Steven (also adopted). When Scott was two years old he contracted a mysterious illness that caused him to stop growing. Afte... Biography of Matthias POHL (SECRET STORY)
Matthias Pohl, born August 28, 1980 in Germany, is a Belgian model. He is a contestant in French reality television programme called Secret Story, in 2008. Secret Story is a French reality television programme following the format of the popular Big Brother series carrying on from the previous similar show, Loft Story. It is currently being shown on TF1, being presented by the same presenter of Loft Story, Benjamin Castaldi. The series started on 27 June 2008, when 15 people entered a purpose-bu... Biography of Billy BOYD
Billy Boyd (born 28 August 1968 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actor and musician most widely known for playing Peregrin Took (Pippin), in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Barrett Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Early life Born in Glasgow, Scotland, his parents died, a year apart, when Boyd was in his early teens. He was raised, along with his older sister Margaret, by their grandmother. In 1984, at the age of sixteen, he appeared in local musical compa... Biography of Bojan KRKIC
Bojan Krkić (pronounced ) (born August 28, 1990 in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain), is a 17-year-old Serbian-Spanish footballer who plays for FC Barcelona in Spain. Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Career Bojan joined the Barcelona FC's cantera in 1999, and scored 889 goals in seven years, breaking all previous goal scoring records held at the clubs youth levels. A quick striker, with quite notable dribbling skills, Bojan shot to prominence at the UEFA European Under 17 Championships in Luxembou... Biography of Umberto PELIZZARI
Umberto Pelizzari (born August 28, 1965) is an Italian freediver, widely considered amongst the best of all times. Of his era, he is the sole to have established world records in all the then existing disciplines of freediving. Life Pelizzari was born in the Lombardian city Busto Arsizio. He debuted as a child in agonistic swimming, moving to freediving at age 19. At 1.89m and 84kg, he set his first world record in Static Apnea in 1988 with 5'33" min, which he subsequently pushed to 7'02". I... Biography of Jennifer COOLIDGE
Jennifer Coolidge (August 28, 1963) is an American comedic actress. Personal life Coolidge was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Paul Coolidge, a plastics manufacturer. She was raised in Boston and has a sister, Suzanne. Coolidge attended Norwell High School and Emerson College in Boston. She has dated actor Chris Kattan and currently dates writer Banks McClintock. Career Coolidge is known for her supporting roles in many comedy movies and guest spots on television. She ... Biography of David FINCHER
David Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American music video and film director known for his dark and stylish films, particularly Fight Club and Se7en. Early life and career Born in Denver, Colorado, Fincher was raised in Marin County, California. He moved to Ashland, Oregon in his teens where he graduated from Ashland High School. Inspired by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Fincher began making movies at age eight with an 8 mm camera. Filmmaking seemed the perfect outlet for a... Biography of Richard ASTRE
Richard Astre, born Augsut 28, 1948 in Toulouse, is a French former rugby player.... Biography of James Leroy Augustine JAGGER
James Leroy Augustine Jagger, born August 28, 1985 in New York, is one of the child of Mick Jagger. Mick Jagger has seven children with four women. His first child is daughter Karis, by Marsha Hunt, born in 1970. His second is Jade Jagger, by Bianca Jagger, born in Paris 1971. With Jerry Hall he has four children: Elizabeth Jagger born in 1984 ; James Leroy Augustin , born in 1985; Georgia May Ayeesh, born in January 1992; and Gabriel Luke Beauregard, who was born in 1997. His youngest child i...
Biography of Mary McCARTNEY
Mary Anna McCartney-Donald (born in London on 28 August 1969) is a photographer. The first child of rock photographer Linda Eastman McCartney and Paul McCartney of The Beatles, Mary was named after her grandmother, Mary McCartney. Mary has an older half-sister named Heather McCartney (born Heather Louise See in 1962 to Linda and Joseph Melville See Jr.), who was adopted by Paul McCartney; a younger sister, Stella (born 1971); and a younger brother, James (born 1977). Mary's mother, Linda, die... Biography of Loïc LEFERME
Loïc Leferme (28 August 1970 – 11 April 2007) was a French diver who was the world free diving record holder until 2 October 2005, when he was surpassed by Herbert Nitsch. In 2002 he set the world free diving record without any breathing apparatus at 162 meters. His first world record was 137 meters (1999). On 30 October 2004, he extended his own world record to 171 meters in the no limits free-diving category. The premier advocate of the type of freediving come to be known as Chapuis Freediving... Biography of Emma SAMMS
Emma Samms (born Emma Samuelson on August 28, 1960, in London) is a British television actress. Emma Samuelson trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School but had to stop dancing at 15 after an injury to her hip. She then decided to train as an actress, changing her name to Emma Samms as there was already an Emma Samuelson registered at actors union Equity. Career Samms has played Holly Sutton Scorpio on the daytime soap opera General Hospital in three stints: 1982 to 1985; 1... Biography of Priscilla COSTELLO
Priscilla Costello, born August 28, 1945 in Clarksburg, West Virginia, is an American-Canadian astrologer, teacher and author. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.... Biography of Robert MERLE
Robert Merle (August 28, 1908 - March 28, 2004) was a French novelist. Born in Tebessa in French occupied Algeria, he moved to France in 1918. Merle wrote in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote. He has also written a 13 book series of historical novels, Fortune de France. Recreating 16th and 17th century France through the eyes of a fictitious Protestant doctor turned spy, he went so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslata... Biography of Charles BOYER
Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978) was a four-time Academy Award-nominated French actor who starred in a number of classic Hollywood films, and made a long successful career. His most famous role was in the 1944 film Gaslight. After moving to the U.S., he became an American citizen. Early years Born in Figeac, Lot, Midi-Pyrenees, France, to Maurice and Louise Boyer - was just a shy small-town boy who discovered the movies and theater at the age of eleven. Working as a hospital... Biography of Daniel GODDARD
Daniel Goddard (born on August 28, 1971 in Sydney, Australia) is a model and an actor. He nearly completed a degree in finance when he dropped out and transferred to the Ensemble Actors Studio. After several theatrical appearances, Goddard landed his first television role in the soap opera Home and Away as Eric Phillips. Taille : 6' 2" (1.88 m) Goddard then departed for Hollywood. During this period, he modeled for Calvin Klein and Dolce & Gabbana. He landed the lead role of Dar on the Bea...
Biography of Anne BARRERE
Anne Isabelle Barrère, born August 28, 1954 in Paris, is a French TV producer. She is the daugther of journalist Igor Barrère and the wife of journalist Robert Namias.... Biography of Sarah ROEMER
Sarah Christin Roemer (born August 28, 1984) is an American actress and model. Roemer was born in San Diego, California. At the age of 15, she began modeling. In 2007 she posed for Maxim Magazine. She also portrayed Lacey in the 2006 Takashi Shimizu film The Grudge 2 and co-starred with Shia LaBeouf in 2007's Disturbia. She is currently working on Asylum. Height 5' 7½" (1.71 m) Filmography Year Movie Role 2006 The Grudge 2 Lacey Wristcutters: A Love Story Rachel 2007 Disturbia...
Biography of Antoine VEIL
Antoine Veil, born August 28, 1926 in Blâmont (Meurthe-et-Moselle), is a French politician and businessman. He is the husband of Simone Veil.... Biography of Ben GAZZARA
Biagio Anthony “Ben” Gazzara (born August 28, 1930) is an American actor in television and motion pictures. Early life Gazzara was born in New York City, the son of Italian immigrants Angelina (née Cusumano) and Antonio Gazzara, who was a laborer. Gazzara grew up on New York's tough Lower East Side. He attended New York City's famed Stuyvesant High School. He found relief from his bleak surroundings by joining a theater company at a very young age. Years later, he said that the discovery of ...
Biography of Karl BOHM
Karl August Leopold Böhm (August 28, 1894 – August 14, 1981) was an Austrian conductor. Born in Graz, Austria, Böhm studied law and earned a doctorate on this subject. He later studied music at the Graz Conservatory. On the recommendation of Karl Muck, Bruno Walter engaged him at Munich's Bavarian State Opera in 1921. Darmstadt (1927) and Hamburg (1931) were the next places he resided as a young conductor, before succeeding Fritz Busch as head of Dresden's Semper Opera in 1934. He secured a t... Biography of Rick ROSSOVICH
Rick Rossovich (born August 28, 1957) is an American actor. Rossovich was born Frederic Enrico Rossovich in Palo Alto, California. His brother, Tim Rossovich, is a former professional football player and also an actor. Rossovich has appeared in over 30 films, including: The Terminator (as Matt) (1984) Top Gun (as 'Slider') (1986) Roxanne (as Chris McConnell) (1987) Navy SEALs (as Leary) (1990) Rossovich also appeared in several TV series, including: the USA Network TV series ... Biography of PHRANC
Phranc (born Susan Gottlieb on August 28, 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer-songwriter whose career has spanned several decades. She began her performing career in the late 1970s and early 1980s punk scene in Los Angeles. She had a bleach blonde crewcut and wore male attire creating an androgynous persona for her first band Nervous Gender, which formed in 1978. The writer V/D wrote of her for the punk fanzine Slash, "On stage, Phranc looks like a 14-year-old runaway from ... Biography of Daniel STERN
Daniel Jacob Stern (born August 28, 1957) is an American television and film actor. He is known for his roles in the 1990s Hollywood films City Slickers and Home Alone. Early life Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland to a social worker father and a mother who managed a day care center. His brother is television writer David M. Stern. According to IMDB.com, Stern is 6'4. Stern graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase Senior High School in 1975. During his years at B-CC, Stern starred in several th... Biography of Delphine FOREST
Delphine Forest, born August 28, 1966 in Paris, is a French actress. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286110/ ) Quiet Flows the Don (2006) .... Aksinia Villa vanille (1998) (TV) .... Ariane Mindbender (1996) (TV) .... Sharon ... aka Uri Geller Mauvais garçon (1993) .... Léa Nombril du monde, Le (1993) .... Habiba Divertimenti della vita privata, I (1992) .... Mathilde Seurat/Julie Renard ... aka Amusements de la vie privée, Les (France) ... aka The Amusements ... Biography of Franck BOIDIN
Franck Boidin, born August 28, 1972 in Hénin-Beaumont, is a French fencer. 1996 Olympic Bronze medallist Franck Boidin also took the Bronze in the 2001 World Championships. With his countrymen in the World Championships Men's Foil Team event, he won the Gold in 2001 and the Silver in 2002....
Biography of Hugh CORNWELL
Hugh Cornwell (born Hugh Alan Cornwell, 28 August 1949, Tufnell Park, North London) is an English musician and songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for punk/new wave group, The Stranglers, from 1974 to 1990. Career Cornwell grew up in Tufnell Park and Kentish Town and attended William Ellis School in Highgate, where he played bass in a band with Richard Thompson, later a member of Fairport Convention. In the late 1960s, after earning a B.A. in biochemistry from Bristo... Biography of Cornelius Cooper JOHNSON
Cornelius Cooper Johnson (August 28, 1913 – February 15, 1946) was an African-American athlete in the high jump. Born in Los Angeles in 1913, Cornelius ("Corny") Johnson first competed in organized track and field events at Berendo Junior High School. He achieved greater athletic success as a student at Los Angeles High School, competing in the sprint and in the high jump. At the Los Angeles Olympics in 1932, Johnson, who was then an 18 year old high school student, placed fourth in the hi... Biography of Luis GUZMAN
Luis Guzmán (born August 28, 1956) is a Puerto Rican actor. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, his squat build, wolfish features, and brooding countenance have garnered him roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen, but his later career has seen him move into more mainstream roles. He is a favorite of director Steven Soderbergh, who cast him in Out of Sight, The Limey, and Traffic, and Paul Thomas Anderson, who cast him in Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Lo... Biography of Pierre CARDO
Pierre Cardo, born August 28, 1949 in Toulon, is a French politician, member of UMP (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire)....
Biography of Bruno NUYTTEN
Bruno Nuytten (born 28 August 1945 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France) is a French cinematographer-turned-director who directed Camille Claudel. Nuytten is a Flemish last name that can appear under several different forms. His films as cinematographer include Les Valseuses, Barocco, La Meilleure façon de marcher, The Bronte Sisters, Brubaker, Garde à vue, Possession, Fort Saganne, So Long, Stooge (Tchao Pantin), Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources (US title: Manon of the Spring). He w...
Biography of Alice PLAYTEN
Alice Playten (born August 28, 1947) is an American actress and composer. Born Alice Plotkin in New York City, Playten began her career in 1959 in the Broadway musical Gypsy. Additional Broadway credits include Oliver!, Henry, Sweet Henry, Hello, Dolly!, Rumors, Seussical, and Caroline, or Change. Her many off-Broadway credits include Promenade, The Last Sweet Days of Isaac, Up from Paradise, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Spoils of War, Four Short Operas, First Lady Suite, A F... Biography of Carly POPE
Carly Pope (born 28 August 1980) is a Canadian actress. Early life Pope was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, with an older brother, Kris, also an actor, and a younger brother. Pope's passion for acting began during her high school years in Vancouver where she appeared in stage classics such as The Odd Couple, playing Mickey, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, playing Titania. Career Pope already had a number of film and television roles to her credit (Disturbing Behavior, Nig...
Biography of Nicolas de TAVERNOST
Nicolas de Tavernost, born August 28, 1950 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, is a French manager, President of M6 Television Channel (May 2000 - ).... Biography of Rachel KIMSEY
Rachel Kimsey (born August 28, 1978 in Tustin, Orange County, California) is an American actress. Kimsey portrayed Mackenzie Browning on the soap opera The Young and the Restless from March 2005 but was let go from the soap after only a year. Her final airdate was May 17, 2006. She also portrayed one of Candice Wilmer's many facades in the Season 2 episode "Kindred" of the NBC television show Heroes. She is 5' 7" (1.70 m) tall. Kimsey earned a BFA from Brigham Young University in 2000. ...
Biography of George VILLIERS de BUCKINGHAM
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628) (surname pronounced /ˈvɪlɚz/ ("villers")) was the favourite, claimed by some to be the lover of King James I of England, and one of the most rewarded royal courtiers in all history. Early life He was born in Brooksby, Leicestershire, in August 1592, the son of the minor gentleman Sir George Villiers (1550-1604). His mother, Mary (1570 - 1632), daughter of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leicestershire, wh... Biography of Alexander von VIETINGHOFF
Alexander von Vietinghoff, born August 28, 1948 in Zurich-Enge, is a Swiss historian, author, astrologer and archaeologist.... Biography of Andy BATHGATE
Andrew James Bathgate (born August 28, 1932 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 17 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins. Playing career Andy Bathgate was a popular star-player of the New York Rangers and also holds the honor of being declared the MVP of both the NHL and WHL. He started his professional career with the Cleveland Barons of the AHL... Biography of Alessandro PUCCINI
Alessandro Puccini (born August 28, 1968) is an Italian fencer and olympic champion in foil competition. He received a gold medal in foil individual at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta....
Biography of Peggy RYAN
Margaret O'Rene "Peggy" Ryan (28 August 1924, Long Beach, California – 30 October 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American dancer who starred in a series of movie musicals at Universal Studios, tapping and clowning with Donald O'Connor. Her parents were vaudevilleians, "The Merry Dancing Ryans", and Peggy joined them onstage before she was two years old. Her singing, acting, and dancing skills were noticed by George Murphy, who helped her get a role in 1937's Top of the Town. Her first pairin...
Biography of Genevieve GAZON (HEAVY MERGE)
Genevieve Gazon, born August 28, 1964 in New York, is an Amercian musician and singer, member of the jazz band Heavy Merge. The jazz band Heavy Merge was founded in New York City in 1997 by bassist Orlando Marin, Jr. and her. Biography on site mp3.com http://www.mp3.com/artist/heavy-merge/summary/ The jazz band Heavy Merge was founded in New York City in 1997 by bassist Orlando Marin, Jr. and singer Genevieve Gazon. Their first gig together was at a local club called The Dark Star Lounge. T...
Biography of Elmire VAUTIER
Elmire Vautier (Armandine Elmire Vautier), born August 28, 1897 in Granchain, Eure, died April 19, 1954 in Livilliers, Val-d'Oise, was a French actress and comedian. Filmography 1918 : La femme des autres de Pierre Marodon 1919 : Qui a tué ? de Pierre Marodon 1919 : Sa gosse de Henri Desfontaines 1919 : Le sang des immortelles de André Liabel 1919 : L'île sans amour de André Liabel 1919 : Le fils de la nuit de Gérard Bourgeois 1920 : La Preuve de André Hugon 1921 : L'autre de...
Biography of Joann SFAR
Joann Sfar (pronounced /ʒoan sfaʁ/) (born August 28, 1971 in Nice) is a French comics artist, screenwriter and comic book creator. Sfar is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu and six other artists. He also worked together with many of the new movement's main artists, e.g. David B. and Lewis Trondheim. The Donjon series which he creat... Biography of John LONG
John Eddie Long (born August 28, 1956, in Romulus, Michigan) is a retired American professional basketball player. After starring at the University of Detroit, the 6’5” (1.96 m) shooting guard was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the second round of the 1978 NBA Draft. He played eight seasons for the Pistons, and he averaged a career-high 21.9 points per game in 1981-82. Long was the original backcourt partner to point guard Isiah Thomas before Joe Dumars was drafted. After Dumars was na... Biography of Arthur JACKSON
Arthur Jackson, born August 28, 1935 in Aberdeen, is a Scottish killer and psychopath. He has killed several persons and stalked and attacked actress Theresa Saldan March 15, 1982. He is now in a prison mental hospital....
Biography of Matthew Jones ARMSTRONG
Matthew John Armstrong (born August 28, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American actor. He is most recently seen in the television series Heroes as Ted Sprague and a single episode of House. He also had a long running role on American Dreams. He attended Naperville Central High School in Naperville, Illinois. Armstrong reportedly has been mistaken as one of the actors who portray cavemen in a popular series of commercials for the automobile insurance provider GEICO, due to his hairstyle... Biography of Richard K. SORENSON
Richard Keith Sorenson (August 28, 1924 - October 9, 2004) was a United States Marine who, as a private, was awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II for his heroism during the Marine landing on Kwajalein Atoll on the night of February 1,-February 2, 1944. He threw himself on an exploding Japanese grenade to save the lives of five fellow Marines. Miraculously, although fragments of the grenade ripped through his thighs, hips, right arm and right leg, he lived through the action. Of the 27 ...
Biography of François BERANGER
François Béranger, born August, 28, 1937 in Amily, Loiret, died October 14, 2003 in Sauve, Gard (cancer), was a French singer. Selected discography Vinyle (réédités en CD par Futur Acoustic) : Tranche de vie 1970 Ça doit être bien 1971 La Chaise, (avec Rachel, Le tango de l'ennui...) 1973, l'Escargot Le monde bouge 1974, l'Escargot L'alternative 1975, l'Escargot En public 1977, l'Escargot Participe présent 1978, l'Escargot Joue pas avec mes nerfs 1979, l'Escargot Article sa... Biography of John Allen NELSON
John Allen Nelson (born August 28, 1959, in San Antonio, Texas) is an American actor. Early life John Allen Nelson was born in San Antonio, Texas. He spent his first three years in Germany with his three siblings, David, Nancy and Diana where his father was stationed as a doctor for the U.S. Air Force. Career Nelson portrayed original series character Warren Lockridge on the American soap opera Santa Barbara from August 1, 1984 to April 29, 1986. He starred as the title character in... Biography of Robertson DAVIES
William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is sometimes said to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate college at the University of Toronto. Biography Early lif... Biography of Donald O'CONNOR
Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. Perhaps his most famous performance was as Gene Kelly's sidekick in the musical Singin’ in the Rain (1952). Life and career Early life Although he always considered Danville, Illinois his home town, Donald O’Connor was born in St. Elizabeth H...
Biography of Antoine-Augustin COURNOT
Antoine Augustin Cournot (28 August 1801‑ 31 March 1877) was a French economist, philosopher and mathematician. Augustin Cournot was born in the small town of Gray (Haute-Saône). He was educated in the schools of Gray until he was fifteen. Subsequently, for the next four years, he worked haphazardly as a clerk in a lawyer's office. Cournot directed his own studies throughout this time, mostly centered around philosophy and law. Inspired by the work of Laplace, Cournot realised that he h...
Biography of Bruno BETTELHEIM
Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990), a Jewish native of Austria, became known as a child psychologist and writer after immigrating as a refugee to the United States in 1939. He gained an international reputation for his views on autism and for his success in treating emotionally disturbed children. Bettelheim subscribed to and became a prominent proponent of the "refrigerator mother" theory of autism -- the theory that autistic behaviors stem from the emotional frigidity of th...
Biography of Godfrey HOUNSFIELD
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield CBE, FRS, (August 28, 1919 – August 12, 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT). His name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans. The scale is defined in Hounsfield units (symbol HU), running from air at −1000 HU, throu...
Biography of Claude-Henri WATELET
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